33 s 
JOURNEY FROM 
feven Englifli. The miles of Norway are Rill larger than thofe 
of Sweden, and one is about equal to eight or nine Englifli. 
In the column of the expences it may perhaps occur, that 
they are not fo great as might have been imagined from what 
was faid in the firfl chapter ; but the difference of travelling is 
to be taken into confideration. There we fpoke of a gentleman 
travelling in his own carriage, and in fummer ; whereas the Diary 
refers to the winter time, when the cheapeft of all conveyances, 
viz. the fledges, are in ufe. A Swedifli fkilling is rather more 
than an Englifh penny; and forty-eight fkillings make a rix-dol- 
lar, which is about equal to four {hillings and fix-pence Englifli. 
The expences are calculated for a fmgle gentleman who wants 
two fledges, one for himfelf, and one for his fervant and luggage, 
with an attendant to each, wdio is to take back the fledges and 
horfe. Befides this, he muff unavoidably have a courier, whom 
he may fend on before him to befpeak horfes; for the horfes are 
fometimes brought together from different houfes that may be 
three or four miles diftant from one another ; and if they were 
not ordered before hand, a very great lofs of time w r ould be oc- 
cafioned by conflantly waiting for them : fuch an avant courier 
is, in Swedifli, called forbad. The attendants are in general pea- 
fants. It is not abfolutely required to pay thefe people any thing 
befides the hire of the fledges and horfes; but it is cuftomary 
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